Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes
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I think that a woman wears so many hats, we have so many aspects to us that we're not just one thing. We represent so much within us and that kind of comes across for me as a designer through mixing prints and colors.
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
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Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
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The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
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Men tend to be selfish.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.
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I should contribute generously to the war chest of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. But, I do not contribute at all.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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I'm the first Icelandic director who started working on U.S. movies. There are others behind me now, but it's like when Bjork opened the door for Icelandic musicians to work abroad. We're such a closed-off country, but Bjork broke the spell. And I'm glad it was a woman who did it. She showed us we could break this barrier.
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The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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We didn't have rest days or weekends because we had to get ready as fast as possible, so we could beat the Americans, who were also racing to send a woman into space.
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We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
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I feel like every woman is a queen, and we should be treated as such, and we should, you know, sort of request that sort of treatment from others.
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I literally couldn't get anyone to hire me. Having a woman do sports was seen as too risky.
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Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.
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Suppose the pay gap between men and women were magically eliminated. If that happened, simple arithmetic suggests that half of women would be unable to find what they regard as a suitable mate.
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The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
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We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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Closing the door to toxicity is the most effective way to make space for new opportunity.
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What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: He gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from an imaginary hell.
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There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.
